赤壁之战乃三国时候，非常著名及重要的战争之一。它发生在公元208年，成功把当时的混乱时局暂时平稳下来，形成三分鼎立。魏，吴和蜀，三国互相抗衡。赤壁背景简略
可三国其实又是在那一朝？那一代呢？
中国的历年朝代可简略排列如下。
三皇五帝，夏，商，周，春秋，战国，秦，汉，三国，晋十六国，南北朝，隋，唐，五代十国，宋，元，明，清，民国。很明显，三国的事迹就开始发生在汉末，然后结束在司马炎的手里，开创了西晋的朝代。至于年份，史家都以184年爆发黄巾起义为三国上限，以280年晋灭吴为三国下限。历时９６年．
东汉中平六年（189年）灵帝死，刘辩继立为少帝。执政的何太后兄何进联络西园八校尉之一的袁绍，杀统领八校尉兵的宦官蹇硕。袁绍、何进等密谋尽杀宦官，并召并州牧董卓入洛阳为援。当宦官杀何进，而袁绍又尽杀宦官之时，董卓率兵入洛阳，尽揽朝政。他废黜少帝，另立刘协为帝，即汉献帝。董卓的专横激起了东汉朝臣和地方牧守的反对，酿成大规规模的内战。
董卓入洛阳后，袁绍出奔冀州，东郡太守桥瑁假东汉三公名义，要求州郡兴兵讨伐董卓，关东州郡纷纷响应。他们分屯要害，推袁绍为盟主，相机进攻董卓。初平元年（190年），董卓避关东兵锋，挟持汉献帝西迁长安。关东联军本是乌合之众，彼此欺诈并吞，不久就分崩离析了。初平三年长安兵变，董卓被杀，关中混乱不已。
经过激烈的混战以后，到建安元年（196年）时，全国形成许多割据区域：袁绍占据冀、青、并三州，曹操占据兖、豫二州，韩遂、马腾占据凉州，公孙瓒占据幽州，公孙度占据辽东，陶谦、刘备、吕布先后占据徐州，袁术占据扬州的淮南部分，刘表占据荆州，刘璋占据益州，孙策占据扬州的江东部分，士燮占据交州。此外，张鲁以道教的组织形式保据汉中地区，置祭酒以治民。在这些割据者中，势力最强也最活跃的是袁绍和曹操．
董卓入洛阳后，曹操逃至陈留（今河南开封东南），聚兵反抗，成为关东联军的一支。他在济北（今山东长清南）诱降黄巾军三十万众，选其精锐，编为青州兵；又陆续收纳一些豪强地主武装。建安元年，他把汉献帝迁到许县（今河南许昌东），取得了挟天子以令不臣之势；又屯田积谷，以蓄军资。建安五年，曹操与袁绍两军进行官渡之战，曹操以弱胜强，全歼袁军主力；又利用袁绍二子的矛盾攻占袁氏的邺城，相继占领青、冀、幽、并四州之地，统一了中原地区。建安十二年，曹军出卢龙塞（今河北遵化西北），打败侵扰北方的乌桓。
建安十三年，曹军南下，攻占刘表之子刘琮所据的荆州。依托于荆州的刘备向南奔逃。江东的鲁肃受孙权之命与刘备会晤，商讨对策，诸葛亮又受刘备之命，于柴桑（今江西九江西南）与孙权结盟，共抗曹军。孙、刘联军以少胜多，大败曹军水师于赤壁（一般认为在今湖北蒲圻西北，长江南岸），迫使曹军退回中原。这就是促使形成三国鼎立局面的赤壁之战。
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Alba announced her pregnancy in December 2007 and married with Warren on May 19 in Los Angeles. Both actors met during the filming of Fantastic Four in 2004.
The proud actress cooed as she spoke about her first child for the first time: "It hasn't totally sunk in. "She dreams, she smiles, and coos and does all these things, but she hasn't seen enough of the world yet to understand any of that stuff.
"So I still feel like she's connected to the other world, or something. There's no other way to explain it. It's a miracle.
"She has my mouth when I was a baby. And my ears."
And Jessica revealed to OK! that the natural birth was a smooth experience.
"The labor was more like meditation", she said. "I did yoga breathing. I was focused.
"I didn't scream. It was really Zen."
And Jessica revealed to OK! that the natural birth was a smooth experience.
"The labor was more like meditation", she said. "I did yoga breathing. I was focused.
"I didn't scream. It was really Zen."
Celebrities' baby photos have provided parents with millions of dollars. Recently, the first photos of Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony's twins Max and Emme brought in an estimated $6 million. Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt's first biological son Shiloh was valued at $4.1 million in the United States, according to reports.
The first photos of Jolie and Pitt's newly born twins are reportedly the most expensive ever. Media reports estimate a magazine in the U.S has offered between $15 million and $20 million.
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According to "Road & Track", the gloves are off at Hyundai, determined to convince the world that it's ready to go toe-to-toe with some of the biggest manufacturers in the industry, is showing off its sporty new Genesis Coupe concept that is to become a reality in the spring of 2009.
Here's the more details of the articles,
"The Genesis Coupe, despite circulating rumors, will not succeed the Tiburon since Hyundai has no plans to stop production of its front-drive sports coupe. Instead it will enter Hyundai's line up as an entry-level rear-driver powered either by a base turbocharged 4-cylinder engine, or more powerful all-aluminum 3.8-liter V-6 that is estimated to make over 300-bhp, and over 250 lb-ft of torque.
The curvaceously raked body design is said to have been inspired by LeMans race cars, drift cars and of all other things, some die cast models by Jada Toys Dub City. Extensive use of carbon fiber can be seen throughout the entire body including the hood, roof, front fascia, rocker panels and various other details. This is no doubt an expensive setup which will most likely not make it into the sub-$30,000 production version.
Mated to either a 6-speed automatic or ZF-made 6-speed manual transmission, power will then be transmitted through a limited-slip differential and ultimately to a pair of the large 20-in. polished aluminum wheels. Hankook Ventus tires measuring 255/35ZR-20 in front and 275/35ZR-20 at the rear, are assigned the duty of managing traction under acceleration and cornering, and when the 4-piston monobloc Brembo brakes are called upon, stopping.
This 2 + 2 seater measuring 183.7-in. long, 74.9-in. wide, 54.5-in. tall and with a wheelbase of 111.0-in, upon entering the market in 2009 will have a specific mission, according to V.P. John Krafcik, and that is to "deliver a driving experience that challenges cars like the Infiniti G37, at prices more like a Mitsubishi Eclipse."
The curvaceously raked body design is said to have been inspired by LeMans race cars, drift cars and of all other things, some die cast models by Jada Toys Dub City. Extensive use of carbon fiber can be seen throughout the entire body including the hood, roof, front fascia, rocker panels and various other details. This is no doubt an expensive setup which will most likely not make it into the sub-$30,000 production version.
Mated to either a 6-speed automatic or ZF-made 6-speed manual transmission, power will then be transmitted through a limited-slip differential and ultimately to a pair of the large 20-in. polished aluminum wheels. Hankook Ventus tires measuring 255/35ZR-20 in front and 275/35ZR-20 at the rear, are assigned the duty of managing traction under acceleration and cornering, and when the 4-piston monobloc Brembo brakes are called upon, stopping.
This 2 + 2 seater measuring 183.7-in. long, 74.9-in. wide, 54.5-in. tall and with a wheelbase of 111.0-in, upon entering the market in 2009 will have a specific mission, according to V.P. John Krafcik, and that is to "deliver a driving experience that challenges cars like the Infiniti G37, at prices more like a Mitsubishi Eclipse."
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"As home prices continue to decline and loan defaults mount, federal regulators are bracing for dozens of American banks to fail over the next year.
But after a large mortgage lender in California collapsed late Friday, Wall Street analysts began posing two crucial questions: Just how many banks might falter? And, more urgently, which one could be next?
The nation’s banks are in far less danger than they were in the late 1980s and early 1990s, when more than 1,000 federally insured institutions went under during the savings-and-loan crisis. The debacle, the greatest collapse of American financial institutions since the Depression, prompted a government bailout that cost taxpayers about $125 billion.
But the troubles are growing so rapidly at some small and midsize banks that as many as 150 out of the 7,500 banks nationwide could fail over the next 12 to 18 months, analysts say. Other lenders are likely to shut branches or seek mergers.
“Everybody is drawing up lists, trying to figure out who the next bank is, No. 1, and No. 2, how many of them are there,” said Richard X. Bove, the banking analyst with Ladenburg Thalmann, who released a list of troubled banks over the weekend. “And No. 3, from the standpoint of Washington, how badly is it going to affect the economy?”
Many investors are on edge after federal regulators seized the California lender, IndyMac Bank, one of the nation’s largest savings and loans, last week. With $32 billion in assets, IndyMac, a spinoff of the Countrywide Financial Corporation, was the biggest American lender to fail in more than two decades.
Now, as the Bush administration grapples with the crisis at the nation’s two largest mortgage finance companies, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, a rush of earnings reports in the coming days and weeks from some of the nation’s largest financial companies are likely to provide more gloomy reminders about the sorry state of the industry.
The future of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac is vital to the banks, savings and loans and credit unions, which own $1.3 trillion of securities issued or guaranteed by the two mortgage companies. If the mortgage giants ever defaulted on those obligations, banks might be forced to raise billions of dollars in additional capital.
The large institutions set to report results this week, including Citigroup and Merrill Lynch, are in no danger of failing, but some are expected to report more multibillion-dollar write-offs.
But time may be running out for some small and midsize lenders. They vary in size and location, but their common woe is the collapsed real estate market and souring mortgage loans. Most of these banks are far smaller than the industry giants that have drawn so much scrutiny from regulators and investors.
Still, only six lenders have failed so far this year, including IndyMac. In 1994, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation listed 575 banks that it considered to be troubled. As of this spring, the agency was worried about just 90 banks. That number may go up in August, when the government releases an updated list.
“Failed banks are a lagging indicator, not a leading indicator,” said William Isaac, who was chairman of the F.D.I.C. in the early 1980s and is now the chairman of the Secura Group, a finance consulting firm in Virginia. “So you will see more troubled, more failed banks this year.”
And yet IndyMac, one of the nation’s largest mortgage lenders, was not on the government’s troubled bank list this spring — an indication that other troubled banks may be below the radar.
The F.D.I.C. has $53 billion set aside to reimburse consumers for deposits lost at failed banks. IndyMac will eat up $4 billion to $8 billion of that fund, the agency estimates, and that could force it to raise more money from the banks that it insures.
The agency does not disclose which banks it thinks are troubled. But analysts are circulating their own lists, and short sellers — investors who bet against stocks — are piling on. In recent weeks, the share prices of some regional banks, like the BankUnited Financial Corporation, in Florida, and the Downey Financial Corporation, in California, have stumbled hard amid concern about their financial health. A BankUnited spokeswoman said the lender had largely avoided risky subprime loans.
In his “Who Is Next?” report over the weekend, Mr. Bove listed the fraction of loans at banks that are nonperforming, meaning, for example, that the assets have been foreclosed on or that payments are 90 days past due. He came up with what he called a danger zone, which was a percentage above 5 percent. Seven banks fell in this category.
An important issue for the regional and community banks will be whether they have managed to sell their riskiest loans to Wall Street firms.
And the government may have fewer failures than in the past because private investment funds might buy some troubled lenders. Regulators are considering rule changes that would allow private equity firms to buy larger shares of banks, and several prominent investors, like Wilbur Ross, have raised funds to leap in."
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First of all, you need to know what resilience is so that you can remember that you have it. Resilience is an emotional muscle that can grow with use and practice -- or atrophy if ignored.
Everyone can grow this emotional muscle. Everyone needs to.
You are born with some resilience. You have the choice how to apply it throughout your life. To grow resilience you need fuel, you need challenge and you need lots of practice.
Some people believe that resilience is a trait that is inborn; you either have it or you don't. But that is not quite accurate. You are born with some component characteristics that aid and abet the development of resilience. For example, there is a contribution that temperament makes to the acquisition of resilience; some people are simply born with less reactivity to stress. It makes them more hardy in the face of adversity and better able to draw on their cognitive abilities in situations that throw others off balance.
You are born with some resilience. You have the choice how to apply it throughout your life. To grow resilience you need fuel, you need challenge and you need lots of practice.
Some people believe that resilience is a trait that is inborn; you either have it or you don't. But that is not quite accurate. You are born with some component characteristics that aid and abet the development of resilience. For example, there is a contribution that temperament makes to the acquisition of resilience; some people are simply born with less reactivity to stress. It makes them more hardy in the face of adversity and better able to draw on their cognitive abilities in situations that throw others off balance.
Some people are also born with more optimism or are more extraverted. Still others have more courage, are more prone to take risks. All of these qualities, generally thought to be inborn components of personality, influence the ease with which you develop resilience. But determination and practice can help anyone foster resilience. It is, in fact, more a learning process than an inherited gift. What, then, do you do to grow resilience? Here's the recipe.
1. When life hands you a setback, readjust your own identity. Stop thinking of yourself as a victim and start thinking of yourself as a problem-solver.
Flip the switch in your brain. Don't focus on yourself or your shortcomings, focus on your goal and what you need to do to get there. Ask yourself, How do I solve the problem?
2. Always challenge yourself to go just beyond your comfort zone. Risk builds resilience, and it's OK to take reasonable risks.
The simplest way to go beyond your comfort zone is to learn a new skill. Take up skiing, or snowboarding.
There is no end to the number of areas in which you can go beyond your comfort zone. If you argue a lot with your spouse, don't give up. Try for an understanding one more time. If you are having trouble with a child, remember how much you love him or her.
The aim is to convert everyday stresses into opportunities for growth. You use them as springboards for developing coping strategies that ensure the survival of self.
The simplest way to go beyond your comfort zone is to learn a new skill. Take up skiing, or snowboarding.
There is no end to the number of areas in which you can go beyond your comfort zone. If you argue a lot with your spouse, don't give up. Try for an understanding one more time. If you are having trouble with a child, remember how much you love him or her.
The aim is to convert everyday stresses into opportunities for growth. You use them as springboards for developing coping strategies that ensure the survival of self.
3. Choose a hero, so that in the face of adversity you can maintain a positive identification. I know men who when facing difficulty summon up images of themselves as Russell Crowe in Gladiator. Women can summon up the story of Joan of Arc. Or think of a grandparent who survived the Holocaust.
4. Think of stories of resilience and stars of resilience. Search for models of resilience and study what they did.
You don't have to go far to find them. The media offer plenty of possibilities: Christopher Reeve, Lance Armstrong, even Hillary Clinton. When, as a new senator, she was told that people don't like her, she smiled and said, "That's because they don't know me."
You don't have to go far to find them. The media offer plenty of possibilities: Christopher Reeve, Lance Armstrong, even Hillary Clinton. When, as a new senator, she was told that people don't like her, she smiled and said, "That's because they don't know me."
5. Actively gather information about resilience. Ask people you know how they have handled setbacks.
6. Push yourself physically. Regular exercise helps you maintain a positive attitude and breeds feelings of strength. It is in fact a model of strength and what resilience feels like. It's easy to understand resilience when you experience it organically.
When you run a mile, run a mile and a half. When you lift 10-pound weights, go for 15 pounds. Hold your yoga pose a few seconds longer.
When you run a mile, run a mile and a half. When you lift 10-pound weights, go for 15 pounds. Hold your yoga pose a few seconds longer.
7. Teach yourself patience. Resilience requires being more strategic and less impulsive. Give yourself more time before reacting to inflammatory situations.
If someone is rude to you, don't immediately respond in kind or display contempt. Take three deep breaths before you choose to act. You need to build more space between impulse and action. By definition, when you are less reactive, you become more resilient.
If someone is rude to you, don't immediately respond in kind or display contempt. Take three deep breaths before you choose to act. You need to build more space between impulse and action. By definition, when you are less reactive, you become more resilient.
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What an incredible accident!!! Ha! Ha!
This photo released by Ashley Campasino shows a red Mazda Miata being pulled out from the bottom of the Campasino family swimming pool in Stewartstown, Pa. on June 30, 2008. Kim Taylor thought she had set the emergency brake. But her wayward red convertible nonetheless rolled downhill, crashed through a fence and plunged into her neighbors' in-ground pool.
OMG!!!! What a SHOCK??!! Who can believe THIS??!!
Maria Sharapova was beaten by Alla Kudryavtseva who is also from Russia. The match was just finished about 6:00pm just now in Wimbledon with results 6:2 and 6:4. Alla Kudryavtseva had beat Maria Sharapova like a piece of cake. Sharapova was helpless to fight back.
That's IT!!!! Maria Sharapova was sending out in 2nd.Round!!!!
Alla Kudryavtseva
She will play Shuai Peng in the next round after the Chinese lady beat Austrian mum Sybille Bammer in three sets mere seconds after the Sharapova shocker.
Have you heard of Ian Usher? The British guy from Perth,
Australia who's going to sell off his life in eBay. The auction in eBay will be closed at noon on this coming 29th.June. Usher hoping the final beat will hit up to $500,000 for him to fund a new life.
Usher, who is from County Durham in Britain but moved to Perth in 2001, set up a website (http://www.alife4sale.com) for the sale. The site opens cheerily: "Hi there, my name is Ian Usher, and I have had enough of my life! I don't want it any more!". His decision followed the break-up of his five-year marriage and the end of a 12-year relationship with Laura. He has declined to give details of the break-up but Laura is now with someone else. She has not commented publicly on the auction.
Usher said he got the idea from a friend who had the notion of selling his life through a newspaper advertisement during a bleak period but never did it. He says he's not the first person to put his life on the block.
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It's heavy to write about Factory Life.
In positive view of point, mass production in Factory could solve huge demands from cloud. It could bring down the cost, so that you and me no need to pay with higher price for our desire items. Imagine if no factory going to process milk, then all of us have to feed a cow at home. Of cause it won't happen. Whenever there is demand, there will create the supplier. This is the basic of Economism.
However, working in Factory is like robot. Repeating the same motion, at the same place without exercising your brain. In fact, they don't want you work with your brain. If you work with your brain, means you are dreaming. Then, your concentration to your motion or activities will be affected. So when you are working, better keep your brain somewhere. All they need is the habits of your motion. When your repeating motion becomes standard, then their output quantity and quality will be standard and easy to be controlled. That's why Standard Deviation is so important in manufacturing statistic.
Wecome to the Robot World.
Manufacuting had already invented Intelligence Robot (i-Robot) long ago.
That's you and me.
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Whenever I step near Starbuck Cafe, I always wonder those people sitting inside the cafe with their notebook, what are they actually busy surfing at? Facebook? Friendster? blogspot? News?....????
Therefore, I used to sneak near their table, trying to find out what were they actually doing with their notebook.
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